Originally Posted by aklim

Perhaps so. However, if you want to make that comparison, who would you compare it to and how does it compare when you consider everything instead of just one narrow channel? How about the obesity issue where we are more obese than the next country in the list by more than 10%? Think that doesn't raise costs? If their govt taxes more here to subsidize that there, do you take that into consideration or do you just consider that one item?

Yes, we know it is election time and you are doing your darndest to spread the word to "Vote Democrat" as subtly as possible without saying it. We get it.